T.M. Clark
Reviewed by Helen
This is a short story that I thoroughly enjoyed, who doesn’t love a baby elephant who needs saving and when children are involved in saving this baby your heart will swell with joy and happiness, set in Africa this is a story that shows how families stick together whether human or animal through thick and thin, I highly recommend that you get to know Ndhlovy, Joss, Courtney and Peta as well as their families.
Joss is a young boy who lives at a safari lodge with his parents he has found a baby elephant who needs saving, he and Bongani who helps at the lodge get her home and Leslie, his mother calls in their friend Roger to help with the elephant. Roger arrives with his two daughters Peta and Courtney who is Joss’s best friend and together they all work so hard to save Ndhlovy.
Roger has recently lost his wife Helene and his eldest daughter Peta is having a hard time coping she is studying to be a vet and is home for the Christmas break, Courtney is much younger but together they are a family. This trip to help with the elephant helps them to become even closer and talk about the loss of their mother and wife and open up about their feelings and their family so beautifully.
I loved this story it is beautiful, so well written and as I have read and loved MS Clark’s Child of Africa which is the follow on from this story years later, it was fabulous learning more about Ndhlovy and the families. MS Clark writes captivating, moving and gripping stories set in Africa with strong characters and the animals are such an important part of the stories, truly I cannot highly recommend her stories enough, Elephants are very special to me, thank you MS Clark for another keeper.
Joss is a young boy who lives at a safari lodge with his parents he has found a baby elephant who needs saving, he and Bongani who helps at the lodge get her home and Leslie, his mother calls in their friend Roger to help with the elephant. Roger arrives with his two daughters Peta and Courtney who is Joss’s best friend and together they all work so hard to save Ndhlovy.
Roger has recently lost his wife Helene and his eldest daughter Peta is having a hard time coping she is studying to be a vet and is home for the Christmas break, Courtney is much younger but together they are a family. This trip to help with the elephant helps them to become even closer and talk about the loss of their mother and wife and open up about their feelings and their family so beautifully.
I loved this story it is beautiful, so well written and as I have read and loved MS Clark’s Child of Africa which is the follow on from this story years later, it was fabulous learning more about Ndhlovy and the families. MS Clark writes captivating, moving and gripping stories set in Africa with strong characters and the animals are such an important part of the stories, truly I cannot highly recommend her stories enough, Elephants are very special to me, thank you MS Clark for another keeper.
5/5 stars for a fabulous story
Published
December 27th 2015
by Amazon Digital Services
